Guatemala Injerto Finca Pacamara Pandora Fatima Flavor Profile Aroma Characteristics Description

Pacamara: A Premium Coffee Variety

Pacamara gives a full, rich and complex cup. Few varieties balance fruit acidity with pronounced sweetness while also showing stone fruit, vanilla-like botanical notes, tropical fruit, chocolate and spiced sweets.

Product Information

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 100 g
Packaging: Bulk
Organic Certification: No
Bean State: Roasted coffee beans
Sugar Content: Sugar-free
Origin: Guatemala
Roast Level: Medium roast

Coffee Details

Full Name: Guatemala La Libertad, Huehuetenango El Injerto Pandora de Fatima

Country: Guatemala

Grade: SHB (Strictly Hard Bean)

Estate: El Injerto Estate

Roast Level: Medium roast

Processing Method: Washed

Variety: Pacamara

Batch: Competition batch Pandora Fatima EI07

Flavor Notes: Chestnut, plum, chocolate

Guatemala Pacamara - Competition Batch Pandora Fatima - Pacamara PI07

El Injerto Estate: A World-Class Coffee Estate

There are more than ten thousand coffee estates in the world, from those turning out commercial-grade beans to high-quality specialty estates and farms cultivating rare varieties. Today we introduce El Injerto, a renowned Guatemalan estate that has earned international acclaim.

Estate Profile

Situated in Guatemala's famous Huehuetenango highlands, El Injerto Estate has been farmed by the Aguirre family since 1900. The estate's name comes from a local fruit. El Injerto places special emphasis on environmental protection and organic cultivation, with strict quality control to ensure the excellence of its green coffee. Thanks to the Aguirre family's dedication, El Injerto has earned Rainforest Alliance certification and has been a consistent winner in numerous international coffee competitions since 2002.

El Injerto Estate, also translated as "Grafted Estate," stands among Guatemala's premier coffee estates. If they claim to be second, no one would dare to claim first. Their many world-class awards have built that prestige. Last year the owner lifted the estate's standing once more, much as Panama's famous Hacienda La Esmeralda has done. El Injerto hosts global bidding events, and the competition lots it releases are remarkable in the extreme. Notably, its first batch of Mocha variety in 2012 set a world record at an astonishing $500.5 per pound, making it a true superstar estate.

For this competition, El Injerto presented its "BEST El Injerto" series, a set of carefully selected small lots and varieties from the estate. Experienced farmers hand-pick ripe cherries, after which cuppers eliminate any lot that fails the standard. Under such rigorous selection, the Pacamara variety accounts for only about 8% of the estate's total production.

About the Pacamara Variety

Pacamara gained worldwide fame through the Cup of Excellence in 2004, going on to win championships again and again within two to three years. The Pacamara from Guatemala's El Injerto set a record green-bean price of $80.2 per pound in 2008.

The variety's name comes from its parentage: it is a hybrid of Maragogype (Elephant Bean) and Pacas, taking the first four letters of each name to form "Pacamara." Developed in El Salvador, Pacamara beans are very large, close to Elephant Bean size at about screen 21-22. It has become an outstanding variety across Central and South America in recent years, with every country and farm hoping to find the right region for it, much as Panama has done with Geisha.

Pacamara is characterized by bright fruit acidity and an exceptionally pure, delicate sweetness. Although it still looks much like its cousin the Elephant Bean, Pacamara has an identity of its own. Since 2006, Cup of Excellence competitions have cupped Pacamara from 30 different estates, and a few have ranked as true superstars. Examples include Honduras' 2006 champion Santa Martha, El Salvador's 2007 third-place Cerro Negro (Black Mountain Estate), Guatemala's consistent COE winner El Injerto and El Salvador's 2008 runner-up Pacamal Estate. All are exceptional examples of the variety, and all, being award-winning lots, command very high prices.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Washed processing is what lets a great variety like Pacamara speak clearly, and the same holds for FrontStreet Coffee's washed single origins. FrontStreet Coffee Gedingding is a fine example: a washed Yirgacheffe from Gedingding village with the jasmine florals and bright citrus acidity the region is known for, lifted by green tea and honey notes after a medium-light roast. It works well as pour-over, cold brew or espresso.

If you want a cup with structure and juice, FrontStreet Coffee Kenya Little Tomato is one of the best-known washed coffees on the menu. Kenya's double-washed method, with repeated soaking and rinsing, pushes the fruit to the front: cherry tomato, smoked plum, snow pear and black plum over a clean, bright acidity, with yellow-sugar sweetness and a hint of green tea in the finish.

For a rounder, lower-acid alternative, FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 shows why washed processing suits the island so well. Jamaica's shorter sunshine hours make washed processing the natural choice, and the result is a pure, balanced cup of hazelnut, cream, chocolate and caramel, with no single note dominating.